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Way Quotes by Yann Martel
- Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their…
- Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who…
- It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country…
- Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and…
- The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?…
- The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of…
- You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and…
- I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just…
- So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which…
- As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the…
- I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head…
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